De directeur van Amnesty International is op verdenking van Terrorisme "zonder lid te zijn van een terroristische groep" gearresteerd door meneertje Erdogan.
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ISTANBUL — A Turkish court on Tuesday ordered the formal arrest of Amnesty International’s Turkey director and five other human rights workers in a sign of what rights advocates say is the government’s growing intolerance of critical voices.
The Amnesty director, Idil Eser, was detained along with nine other human rights advocates this month during a raid on a hotel where the group was attending a workshop. Amnesty said in a statement that the rights workers “are suspected, without grounds, of ‘committing crime in the name of a terrorist organization without being a member.’ ”
Four members of the group were released on bail Tuesday but remain under investigation, Amnesty said. “This is not a legitimate prosecution,” Salil Shetty, Amnesty’s secretary general, said in a statement. “This is a politically motivated persecution that charts a frightening future for rights in Turkey.”
As part of its campaign to protest the arrests this month, Amnesty called attention to its past advocacy on behalf of Erdogan, who was jailed in 1998 when he was the mayor of Istanbul for reading a poem at a demonstration. The organization said it had written a letter to the Turkish government demanding Erdogan’s release, had declared him a prisoner of conscience and “launched a global campaign on his behalf.”
Bron:
https://www.washingtonpos(...)m_term=.0e84f424f778Dit is toch te ziek voor woorden, wanneer gaat de EU zich een keer wat aantrekken van deze zieke dictator daar in Turkije?
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